Philo Judaeus, De Cherubim, ed. Leopold Cohn, 50

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[50] ἀμιάντῳ γὰρ καὶ ἀψαύστῳ καὶ καθαρᾷ φύσει, τῇ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν παρθένῳ, διαλέγεσθαι πρεπῶδες θεόν, ἐναντίως ἡμῖν· ἀνθρώπων μὲν γὰρ ἡ ἐπὶ γενέσει τέκνων σύνοδος τὰς παρθένους γυναῖκας ἀποφαίνει· ὅταν δὲ ὁμιλεῖν ἄρξηται ψυχῇ θεός, πρότερον αὐτὴν οὖσαν
γυναῖκα παρθένον αὖθις ἀποδείκνυσιν, ἐπειδὴ τὰς ἀγεννεῖς καὶ ἀνάνδρους ἐπιθυμίας, αἷς ἐθηλύνετο, ἐκποδὼν ἀνελὼν τὰς αὐθιγενεῖς καὶ ἀκηράτους ἀρετὰς ἀντεισάγει· Σάρρᾳ γοῦν οὐ διαλέξεται, πρὶν ἐκλιπεῖν ἐκείνην τὰ γυναικεῖα πάντα (Gen. 18, 11) καὶ ἀναδραμεῖν εἰς ἁγνευούσης παρθένου

De Cherubim. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Cherubim (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 1. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1896.)

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On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 50 focus

[50] For the association of men, with a view to the procreation of children, makes virgins women. But when God begins to associate with the soul, he makes that which was previously ¹² woman now again virgin. Since banishing and destroying all the degenerate appetites unbecoming a human being, by which it had been made effeminate, he introduces in their stead genuine, and perfect, and unadulterated virtues; therefore, he will not converse with Sarah before all the habits, such as other women have, have left her, ³ and till she has returned into the class of pure virgins.

Philo Judaeus De Cherubim 50

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